Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-06-10
State 1leDS.


Brattleboro and Montpelier are to
have the free postal delivery system
next month.
Judge Veazey of Rutland is holding a
term of court at st. Johnsbury and Judge
Ross of st. Johnsbury at Bennington.
The Rutland base ball club has a new
and heightened pitcher, Tony Mullane,
of Cincinnati, who is paid 5000 month.
United States Marshal Robinson of
Bennington has decided to remove his
headquarters from Burlington to Rut-
land.
The Knights of Labor have bought the
Rutland Saturday Express from Jewett
L. Cain, and propose to start a daily and
weekly paper in the interests of the
Knights of Labor.
A 5S-pound cannon ball was found the
other day buried in the earth in Battery
park, Burlington. 1t is thought to be of
English manufacture, and is probably a
relic of the Revolution or of 1872.
The body of Thomas Rogers, aged about
GO, and unmarried. living in the east part
of Manchester, was found Thursday night
lying in brook, with his head under
water. 1t is supposed to be case of
suicide.
c. Gold, a harness-maker at Mortified.
attempted suicide Friday morning. He
was discovered in the cellar at his resi-
dence hanging by the neck, but was cut
down by his mother in time to save his
life. He has been partly insane for some
weeks.
a party of New England excursonists
en- route to California met with a serious
accident Tuesday evening at North Pow
nal, in the Fitchburg system. The rear
cars were thrown from the track and
twelve persons were injured; two of
them, it is feared. were fatally hurt.
The Burlington Yacht club has elected
the following named officers: Commo-
dore, T. \. Taft: vice commodore. l.. G.
Grant, secretary and treasurer, II. w.
Hall regatta committee. \. Adsit. II. +.
Woodbury., Col. George W. Hindes, H.
NJ. Phelps, II. Il. Conger; measurer. A.
CT uttle.
\. f. Morgan, son of the late David
Morgan of West Rutland. is believed to
have been murdered near Cohen's Corners.
,. C., few weeks ago, and Carson
White, negro. has been arrested on
suspicion of having committed the
crime. Mr.. Morgan had been canvass
ing on the rice plantations.
The directors of the Bennington Battle
Monument association have voted to ask
the grand lodge of Masons of Vermont
to lay the corner stone August 1G next.
1t is expected that the annual muster of
the first regiment of the militia will be
held in Bennington that week, also the
semi-annual encampment of the Vermont
department of the Grand Army of the
Republic. and the procession and cere-
monies will be both grand and impress ve.
Revilo Howard, a prominent Jamaica
farmer and cattle dealer, aged about 60.
shot his wife the other day. Howard
had been sick and confined to his house
most of the time for four or five weeks.
About 10 a. III. on the day of the shoot
ing. he requested his wife to go to the
wood-shed with some word for the hired
man. while she was out he loaded his
rifle and on her return he shot her. the
ball passing through her left hand and
nearly through her body. and was after
ward removed from her back. She may
recover. He has been adiudged insane
and sent to the asylum.
Robert FittOn, the alleged fire-bug who
has long been an object of fear in the
vicinity of Bellows Falls, was arrested
saturday morning in Walpole, y. H., on
charges of forgery, perjury and contempt
of court, which crimes are said to have
been committed in Windsor county last
January. The insurance companies have
for many years had dread of Fitton.
Nine different buildings owned by one
man. with whom Fitton was connected
were burned within one year. The insur-
ance on these buildings was about $780,
600. In one case the insurance company
contested claim for SIC 800. but the YER
diet was against the company. For some
time the companies haye refused TO take
risks on property in which Fitton was in
any way interested.